Only two weeks ago, a man was taken to hospital after being stabbed in the leg by another resident from the facility.

Another councillor Ruairi McGinley said there has been too much drug dealing in the area in recent times.

He said: “Since the Luas has come in there have been a lot more unsavoury characters around.

“And they’d be brazen as well, with drug dealing and robbing from shops.

“Around that area in particular there would be a few men who would be known.

"And these aren’t young guys tearing around the place, these guys would be almost middle-aged.

“I am calling for an increased garda presence in the area. It is unacceptable at the minute.

”Back in 2012, the Army bomb squad were called to the halfway house after a pipe bomb was left there in a gang dispute.One prisoner had been released from Mountjoy Prison and had moved to the residence before he was targeted."